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Browning machine gunVintage Photographs - Machine Guns
Updated - Saturday, 27 May, 2006

This section of the website contains archive photographs taken during, before and after the war.  Specifically this sub-section contains photography of machine guns deployed during wartime.

Click here to read introductory notes relating to this section, including information on photograph sources.  Use the sidebar to the right to select other categories of photos available within this section.

The photos reproduced below are in thumbnail format - simply click a given photograph to view a larger copy within a separate window.

Machine gun post on the Marne front (CNP)

Browning machine gun and rifle (CNP)

Marines demonstrating the machine-gun carriage (CNP) Machine gun in the commander's post of Zeppelin L-49 (CNP)
Machine gun on a destroyer (CNP) Aeroplane machine gun, loaded by French pilot Vedrines (CPE)
Machine gun crew (CPE) English soldiers with a machine gun (CPE)
An Allied machine-gun detachment near Monastir (CPE) French machine gun and men (SR)
German machine gun in an anti-aircraft position (SR) Belgian machine guns drawn by dogs (WW)
Lewis machine gun ambush team in Mesopotamia (WW) Machine gun outpost and barbed wire on the Upper Piave (WW)
U.S. machine gun in action in France (WW) Lewis air-cooled machine gun (NW)
Dogs used to pull batteries of Belgian Lewis Guns (NW) Captured Russian machine guns exhibited in Berlin (NW)
U.S. soldier examining a German machine gun at St. Mihiel (HW) British seaplane armed with a machine gun (GW)
Biplane with machine gun in its bow (GW) Aircraft fitted with quick-firing gun, manned by a marksman (GW)
Belgian forces bringing up machine guns (GW) German quick-firing, anti-aircraft gun at work (GW)
Maxim Gun squad in action at Antwerp during the German bombardment (GW) Above-water armaments of British submarines: a quick-firing gun (GW)
Deck of a German submarine after the quick-firing gun has lowered (GW) A Maxim gun in action on the British Front in Flanders (GW)
Machine-gun section of Zouaves (GW) Wrecked machine gun emplacement in a captured German trench (GW)
British machine gun section wearing anti-gas masks (GW) Belgian machine-gunners wearing gas respirators (GWS)
French machine gun crew in a twig-lined trench (GWS) A machine-gun used against German aviators in German S.W. Africa (GWS)
French soldiers using a machine gun in a trench at Neuville St Vaast (GWS) Machine gun section of the Alpini in action (GWS)
German soldiers in Berlin examining a captured Russian machine gun (GWS) French machine-gun crew's organised sports meeting (GWS)
A Russian machine-gun in action in Poland (GWS) A machine-gun in position in the Belgian second line (GWS)
Allied forces working a machine gun in Gallipoli (GWS)  

A 'Baby's Head' was a meat pudding which comprised part of the British Army field ration.

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